Tuesday, August 08, 2006

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I found myself in the...


Oops. What embarassing situations have you found yourself in?

18 Comments:

Blogger Ruth said...

Lol!!!

I was waiting in the shower for the hot water to start coming through, and realised some 5minutes later that I had only turned the cold water tap on!!!

(you should post this on 10K Mike).

August 08, 2006 10:18 PM  
Blogger Ruth said...

Not the comment I just made - I mean the picture of you in tha ladies and the question!!

August 08, 2006 10:46 PM  
Blogger ckjolly said...

mike can attest to the fact that i sometimes forget words ... especially when i'm trying to sound intellectual ... or it's late at night or early in the morning ... or when i'm hungry ...

but anyway ... when I was doing my undergrad i was at a table of friends, girls and guys ... and i wanted to bring up the fact that i had had a *discussion* with so-and-so, a bloke that we all knew, but i wanted to sound intelligent and use a stronger word ...

... why didn't i just use the word "discourse"?!!

instead i said inter...

:P

August 09, 2006 3:33 AM  
Blogger The Borg said...

LOL

I make so many faux pas I tend to supress them, hence I can't recall them at crucial moments such as these.

I have used the men's room at a restaurant recently and wondered why the "skinks" looked a bit funny.

August 09, 2006 9:45 AM  
Blogger ckjolly said...

i too supress bad memories ... which is horrible during those ice breakers at parties ... "ok, everyone ... let's share our most embarassing moment!"

um ... i don't remember.

but THAT one ... sheesh ... there's no forgetting the embarassment of that! i dropped my jaw after i said it ... then everyone realized the connotation of what i'd said ... my eyes got big ... then i put my head down, picked up my tray, and walked toward the trash bins to make my escape all the while drowning out the cries from my friends to come back ... it's ok! ...

ergh! what an idiot!

then i went and hid ...

that's what i get for trying too hard.

August 09, 2006 10:10 AM  
Blogger Calico_Rabbit said...

Oh no...I've done that - ie walked into the mens...was in Sydney and a friend took me out to a nightclub.

I was busting to go, but the toilet door signs were really cryptic (crazy looking symbols, actually) so I thought - oh well, I'll wait and see who goes where, iykwim...

so, I catch sight of this tall chick with long blonde hair going into one and think "aha! that must be the ladies!" and walk straight in and make myself at home in a cubicle!

Then I hear a couple of deep, obviosuly male voices talking and think, "those poor men, they're in the ladies loos" and then it dawns on me!...the seat was in the up posiiton when I walked in! Maybe *I* am in the mens loos (doh!)

When all was quiet, I slunk out and went to find my friend...on the way I walk past the blonde chick and discover, face to face, that "she" was a transvestite!

August 09, 2006 3:42 PM  
Blogger JK said...

I was once waiting for a friend who was going to the toilet. I was just waiting outside wandering around,and the toilet door entrance was sort of around a corner(if that sort of makes sence)Anyway I thought I would be a smart ass and scare my mate when he walked out of the door.

I was waiting there ready for him to come out and then I heard the door open. I thought to my self I'll give him a really loud BOOOO!! owwwwrrrr...well I didn't actually see who came through the door because i was waiting for him around the corner. So I totally assumed that this person coming out the door was my friend.

Well... I was wrong I ended up giving this old man who was probably about 70 this massive BOOOO!! It didn't actually scare him much at all(probably a good thing)he just said to me in a joking way "Couldn't scare me mate"

I responded by saying sorry sorry sorry, I was actually trying to scare my friend. I felt like the biggest idiot ever. Luckly the guy was nice about it and laughed it off.

But THAT was a somewhat embarrising moment!! After that happened I told my friend about it, and he totally laughed he's head off. mmmm wasn't a good idea after all.

August 09, 2006 8:42 PM  
Blogger The Librarian said...

Too many to mention, and one a little too apt for this public forum. Will tell you in person :)

August 10, 2006 7:50 AM  
Blogger ckjolly said...

Aims! I wanna know! I told you mine!

August 10, 2006 10:46 AM  
Blogger The Librarian said...

mines MUCH more embarassing than yours...:)

August 10, 2006 8:53 PM  
Blogger Craig Schwarze said...

Good thing you had your camera with you to "capture the moment"...

August 10, 2006 9:25 PM  
Blogger Ruth said...

Amy I want to know too!!

I've done heaps and heaps of embarrassing things.

Sometimes I hop into the front passenger seat of the car - and just sit for a few minutes, waving to the people I've visited, only to realise - duh- I'm the driver!!

August 10, 2006 10:49 PM  
Blogger The Borg said...

lol Ruth. That is very cute. (in a totally non-patronising way)

I have approached "shop assistants" only to have them kindly let me know that they're not. And it's happened to me before, when I wore black and white in Woolworths.

I'm waiting for Angus to relate his incident wit da ladies...

August 11, 2006 7:41 AM  
Blogger ckjolly said...

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August 11, 2006 11:15 AM  
Blogger ckjolly said...

while Mike's away at MTS this weekend, i'm going to make up an embarrassing story for him.

when Mike was 10 he begged his mom to let him take Karate lessons. his mom thought it was a ridiculous idea and that he was just going through a phase. however, in order to build character in her son she agreed to let him have lessons if he paid for them himself.

so he bribed his little brother ... combed the beach for coins tourists had left behind in the sand ... and took out a loan from his grandmother. eventually he had saved enough.

but then ...

he met some chick at school. when he attempted to entice her with tales of his asperations to become a ninja. she SCOFFED at him.

"Ninjas are stupid. Toby, my ex-boyfriend is going to be a famous rockstar!"

Dejected, Mike slowly made his way home. sigh. as he walked down the street he looked into a shop window.

"Karaoke machines starting at $59.99! You can be a rock star, too!"

Very few people know that Mike can do a mean "Thriller."

August 11, 2006 11:18 AM  
Blogger The Librarian said...

LOL! Stine. What a cute story!

I know Mike can sing, he just doesn't do it for some reason.

Hmmm, now I'm trying to think of a better embarassing moment than the one I can't get out of my head, but they're escaping me...

I'll share one from the other day.

I was running in my favorite running place, a dirt road suburb off the highway near my house.

I saw what looked like a hardcore runner. All muscle, legs like tree trunks etc.

I gave him the 'runner's nod' and smiled. He looked at me strangely, like he trying to figure out if he knew me.

On the way back, I gave the same guy the nod again. He fell in step with me and asked what I was 'training for'.

Flattered, I told him I had never raced, but hoped to do a half-marathon one day. He told me he'd been running twenty years ( he was about 45) and did I want to train sometime?

Wow! I'm thinking, I must really have potential. Mr running-for-twenty-years guy wants to train with me!

Then I thought, hmmm, he's a guy and I've only just met him, so I muttered something about just fitting my training in when I had time.

"Okay, he said, I'd better go now, Do you want to go out sometime?"

"urhm, no, I'm married"

Maybe its more embarassing for him than me....

August 11, 2006 11:28 AM  
Blogger Angus said...

My embarrassing moment came just a few minutes ago. It happened when I was looking at the photo and noticed the mirror in the background. "Hmmm," I thought. "That's interesting."

It was only then that I noticed I was checking out Mike's butt.

And Shyborg which incident are you referring to?? There was one that happened in Irish Murphy's, when a drunk blonde woman decided she wanted to dance and I was unable to escape. Shaun thought it was very funny, until a middle-aged woman jumped on his back. THAT was funny. :)

August 15, 2006 4:47 PM  
Blogger mike said...

rofl That sounds like a Shaun Micallef sketch

August 15, 2006 10:09 PM  

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